Wordle in a Minute - 5th January 2025

Those pesky 5s are closing in on the 3s - can we keep them at bay in our #Wordle efforts?

[roiporat]

Mark’s opening word sequence currently:

JANKY FEEBS MARCH APRON MAYOR

Theme: Words that are similar to the months of the year

There’s a couple of options that start with JUN - I went with JUNTA but I saw some suggesting JUNKY or JUNCO

[HaldaneSmith]

The Shrinking Wordle-verse

Words left after Mayor - 2 (Hyper, Cyber)
After Hyper - 1
After Cyber - 0

Data is from The Word Finder

[RJM]

Hard mode heaven today, as it prevented you putting in those two guesses, forcing you to get it in 3.

[HaldaneSmith]

Wordle by the Numbers - Cyber
Standard mode failure rate: 6.3%
Standard mode average guesses: 4.6
Hard mode failure rate: 4.8%
Hard mode average guesses: 4.8

Standard / Hard
01/05/2025 Cyber 6.3% 4.6 / 4.8% 4.8
01/04/2025 Relax 2.6% 4.1 / 1.0% 3.9
01/03/2025 Cheap 0.6% 3.3 / <1% 3.1
01/02/2025 Chose 0.5% 3.4 / <1% 3.3
01/01/2025 Nerve 3.0% 4.0 / 1.1% 4.1
12/31/2024 Lemur 2.1% 4.0 / 0.7% 3.7
12/30/2024 Stare 2.7% 3.0 / 1.5% 2.8

<1% presumably means <0.5%. Wordlebot uses <1% for small values, but it also uses values of 0.5% to 0.9%.

Me (6): talEs > dinER > mowER > queER > Cr(y)ER > CYBER
Hard-mode streak: 74

Data is from Wordlebot.

[TinkerTailor]

"It's telling me I'm a ... moron..."😅 That, preceded by Cinco de Mayo-r, and Mark is on a comedic roll today!

[tameshewolf]

"I'm hyper about my cyber mayor" 😂😂😂

[emilywilliams]

I would have said it was only a prefix, too, but the dictionary (Merriam-Webster) said it is also an adjective. Thanks for this entertaining gem, Mark!

[jvx]

I think it's just a prefix, myself. But I enjoyed watching you fight it out and get it in 3 and in under a minute!! Very well done!! 👏👏👏

[philipjhorton]

From etymonline - from the Greek kybernetes "steersman" (metaphorically "guide, governor"), from kybernan "to steer or pilot a ship, direct as a pilot"

So ancient roots!

[danmcconnell]

Hyper was a great guess - I had only the ER correct on the 2nd guess and ended up with too many possibilities and lost it

[nonumbersinusername]

cybermayor makes me laugh for some reason 😂

[andrewgrant]

That most ancient of words, cyber. Lol.

[ZorlockDarksoul]

CRASH -> CURVE -> CIDER -> COYER -> CYBER

That was a tough one.

[LornaM]

This one nearly got me!
OCEAN
SPICE
CRUEL
CEDER
CRYER
CYBER

I was so confused when I had no vowels left to use 😅

[marcograzioli]

All yellows for me:

Drunk - React - Score - Cyber

[OttoBittoSplatoon]

Nobody in the comments is talking about the "another cinco de mayor" 😂 That foreign language pun messed you up with your next guesses

[jon]

I took me ages to figure it out 😂 Tripy>Royal>Cyber

[EvanSawyer]

I got this one in 5, I'm not gonna even try to remember the words, haha.

[MarionFerris]

Well, that was an interesting solve, done in 5, but took much longer than it should have!
ASIDE
ENVOY
XYLEM
HYPER
CYBER 🎉

[Houndzable]

Are you okay the last couple of times you’ve made some silly mistakes. Is everything okay. You’re a genius, are you putting yourself under to much pressure??